Tiny captures at Fort Canning

[Pauche]

Newbie macro shots.... C&C most welcome....

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#4

[night86mare]

not bad for a newcomer, looks like the technique is good and you are getting reasonably sharp pictures. which lens are you using btw, #1 can go in closer. take note of your pp on #4.. i think you recovered too much highlights or something, it is starting to look too much like a water colour painting. resembling is great, but too much is bad

[grumpy]

Originally Posted by night86mare not bad for a newcomer, looks like the technique is good and you are getting reasonably sharp pictures. which lens are you using btw, #1 can go in closer. take note of your pp on #4.. i think you recovered too much highlights or something, it is starting to look too much like a water colour painting. resembling is great, but too much is bad

Interesting to see a lot of thinking put into the composition.

#2 is the best, but seem like lack of DOF. Maybe a slight change of angle may help to capture that particular petal which seem to be in perpendicular position

#4 - Flash seem to strong. Noticed you + EV compensation for this shot, why har? Maybe if minus, may help.


To night86mare: can you elaborate on what u said about #4, abt the water colour painting? I catch no ball.

[night86mare]

Originally Posted by grumpy To night86mare: can you elaborate on what u said about #4, abt the water colour painting? I catch no ball.

grab any photo you have, and use the photoshop highlight/shadows tool
and just put everything to 100

here the effect is not so pronounced, but the background looks artificial, so does the foreground/subject, the colours are unnatural and not really what you'd normally see

essentially the end result makes it look way too 2d than what you'd normally get